Stanford's Windows Infrastructure for Managing a Windows Environment
by Caren Kammeyer
Stanford's Windows Infrastructure is offered by ITSS for University departments to manage users and computers in the Windows environment. When using a shared Windows domain, this service is free.
Currently, the service manages approximately 7,000 computer objects (desktops and servers), providing authentication capability for approximately 130,000 users.
Among the 25 departments and schools already using this service are: the Graduate School of Business, the School of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, the Office of Research Administration, Internal Audit, and the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources(SULAIR).
Some of the benefits of the Windows Infrastructure are:
- 24x7 (around-the-clock) monitoring and maintenance by trained on-call support staff.
- Designed from the ground up for high availability (100% service uptime to date).
- Security based on University and Government security guidelines.
- Automated identity management based on SUNet ID for single sign on capability.
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